Why the general election result on May 6 wont matter a jot

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Why the general election result on May 6 wont matter a jot | News & Politics | News & Comment | The First Post.

Horribly astute commentray by Neil Clark in the First Post:

The result is that we have three parties now occupying what they claim to be 'the centre ground', but which in reality is anything but. As Seamus Milne pointed out in the Guardian, "The assumption that the broad Blair-Cameron consensus - social liberalism combined with free-market economics, privatisation, low taxes on the rich, and a welfare safety net - reflects the centre of gravity of public opinion is completely unfounded".

What all of this means is that the vast majority of Britons who don't sign up to the phoney Westminster elite consensus are effectively disenfranchised. On May 6 we can either vote for small parties who, largely ignored by the media and faced with an electoral system which perpetuates the status quo, have no chance of forming the next government, or we can stay at home mowing our lawns.

As Simon Jenkins said recently, just when you really need a Labour Party there isn't one to be found.


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